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Online Submission, 2013
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Evaluation, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning
Weatherford, Carol; Seoane, Myriam – 1992
This seven-part guide provides a framework for use in planning, developing, and implementing an evaluation for a tutoring program. Part I provides a brief introduction to the value of evaluating a tutoring program. Part II advises readers first to determine the purpose of their evaluation and the kinds of information to be examined, to consider…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
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Parker, Richard; Hasbrouck, Jan E.; Denton, Carolyn – Preventing School Failure, 2002
Suggestions for tutoring students with reading problems include repeated reading with a model, oral reading with monitoring and feedback, error monitoring, and reading practice of difficult words. Evaluation methods include evaluating oral reading accuracy and oral reading fluency, and flashcard assessment. Suggestions are also offered for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Program Evaluation, Reading Difficulties
Parker, Agnes; Williams, Linda – 1992
This compendium provides an overview of evaluation reports on specially funded programs that operated in the Detroit Public Schools during the 1990-91 school year. The programs are those funded by either the Detroit Board of Education, Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Improvement Amendments, Article 3 of the State Aid Act, Gifted and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Financial Support
Gordon, Edward E. – 1989
This pamphlet provides educators with a consumer's guide to private tutoring services in their communities. It includes a history of the tutoring tradition, methods used by tutoring services to show student progress, procedures for locating a tutor or tutoring service, criteria for selecting a tutoring service, a checklist for assessing tutoring…
Descriptors: Business, Check Lists, Consumer Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bohning, Gerry – Reading Improvement, 1982
Provides resources for teachers who wish to establish programs of peer or cross-age tutoring. (FL)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Program Development
Christian, Cinda; Schmitt, Lisa – Online Submission, 2008
State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under Chapter 39 of the Texas Education Code (1995, amended 2007), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Equal Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Soles, Stanley – 1975
The Remedial Program in Reading and Mathematics for Homebound Children served 470 children who were provided tutorial instruction within their homes from February through June, 1975. It was funded under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I. Twenty-nine teachers provided sessions with each child for two or more sessions per week. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Handicapped Children, Homebound
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Cohen, Peter A.; Kulik, James A. – Educational Leadership, 1981
Students participating in tutorial programs--both as tutors and tutees--show greater cognitive and attitudinal gains than do students who are not involved in such programs. However the common belief that tutorial programs greatly enhance participants' self-esteem appears to be groundless. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching
Edwards, Nancy; And Others – 1990
This evaluation of the 1988/89 compensatory education program for neglected or delinquent youth in Houston found that all youth referred to the program had been tested for eligibility but not all those eligible received services. The program is funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act and offers tutorial services…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Neglect, Compensatory Education, Delinquency
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Mahler, Charles A. – School Psychology Review, 1986
A cross-age tutoring program designed to improve school performance of tutors (adolescents classified as emotionally disturbed) and tutees (children classified as educable mentally retarded) was replicated in an urban public school district. Results showed that both tutors and tutees improved on academic and social measures of school performance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Cross Age Teaching
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
This hearing provides information on major issues that parents and educators face in establishing a parent teacher relationship conducive to improving American education and discusses ways some communities are successfully dealing with those issues. Prepared statements testify to the effectiveness of established parent and community volunteer…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Parent Participation
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Journal of Reading, 1982
Reports the results of a survey of 82 schools in South Australia and 40 schools in the United States concerning their use of paraprofessionals in their reading/tutoring programs. (FL)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Little, Joanne – 1990
This manual details the fundamental steps necessary to create a successful tutoring program. It is based on the experiences of the Anderson (South Carolina) School District One (ASDO) in their tutoring project initiated in 1989-90. The school district intended to increase homework completion, raise test scores, improve attendance, and generate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Dropout Programs, Educational Objectives
Chamberlain, Ed – 1994
The program, which lasted 136 days, was designed to provide classroom or tutorial services in the area of language development for pupils served in Chapter 1 eligible facilities for the neglected or delinquent. The evaluation of the program was based on standardized achievement test information (grades 2-12). Data were collected for the period…
Descriptors: Delinquent Rehabilitation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Schools
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